Minutes of the CIQ TC Meeting held on 10 December 2002
between 3:00pm to 6:00pm in Room 315 of the Baltimore
Convention Centre, Baltimore, MD.

Apologies: Robert James, Mark Meadows, Max Voskob and Nikholaj

Absentees: Marcus Goncalves

Attendees:

Ram Kumar
David Webber
Joe Lubenow
John Glaubitz
Rob Beauchamp

The meeting started with Ram welcoming the committee members.
The committee members introduced themselves to each other about
them and what they are doing.

Ram then started off explaining how CIQ has moved forward since
last year. He mentioned that CIQ standards are now much more cleaner
and complete as a result of lot of work that was done to clean it up. 

Ram then explained the rapid adoption of CIQ standards in industry 
(atleast over 50+ implementations) and it is growing and that it is
hard to track the usage of the standards as there is no process in
OASIS to track this. Ram mentioned about some of the key adoptions
of CIQ standards such as Medbiquitous consortium, Election and Voting
Services TC, UBLs interest on CIQ TC, few egovernment's interests.
Ram also mentioned that Mark did express that he and his group will 
be looking into how to use CIQ in their next generation CRM systems
at Microsoft.

Ram mentioned that he is compiling a list of potential users of the
CIQ standards (but hide the name of the company and the contact due
to privacy issues) and will publish them on the CIQ webn site. David
then explained that ebXML has a template that describes the potential
users of ebXML and that we should use that template. The CIQ TC agreed
to look into it.

Ram then asked the CIQ TC whether we need to move to the next stage of
the CIQ standards, ie., submitting the standards for voting as an OASIS
standard. The reason for this is that an OASIS standard will generate more
adoption in industry than a committee specification. Everyone agreed, but
David raised the issue of privacy and permissioning with customer data.
The committee then unianimously agreed that we will not incorporate these
issues in this version of the specs., and will include it as the future
work for Version 3.0., and that we will go ahead with taking V2.0 of the
spec., to the next stage that is, adoption as an OASIS Standard. The committee
asked Ram to talk to Karl Best to get his advise. The committee did not want
the TC to get caught up with privacy issues and get killed the same way as
the CPExchange initiative from IDEAlliance.

Ram then mentioned about the work he is doing on defining a set of APIs for
CIQ standards that will enable consistent implementation of the standards
in industry. The committee thought that this was a great idea and casted
their support behind this initiative. The APIs will support for validation,
insert, update, compare, etc. Ram said that once a draft version of the document
is ready, he will circulate it to the TC for their contribution.

Rob Beauchamp then demonstrated his company's new SilverStream product that
supports the CIQ model. The demonstrated started with a presentation followed
by the actual demo. The dem was simple and elegant. Ram was impressed by the
UML models generated from the CIQ schemas. Ram told the members that there is
an increasing interest in industry to have a UML version of the schemas and
requested Rob whether he can give the UML models to the CIQ TC and Rob agreed.
Rob then mentioned that the CIQ standards do not provide the option to assign
unique keys to records and they had to extend the model to do the same. He requested
that this feature should be included as part of V3.0. The other recommendation
from Rob was to provide recommended UML model standards in addition to the XML
standards. The CIQ TC said that it will include the request in the list of things
"to consider/do" for the next version of the standards.

Joe Lubenow then explained about the work he has done for UPU in address formatting.
He mentioned that the Postal Address Template Description Language (PATDL) that he
developed is now a UPU standard. He said that he will look at one country at a time to
implement the postal address templates. 

David Webber explained about his new TC called "Content Assembly Mechanism" that
is continuation of the work from UN/EDIFACT. Given the slow process in UN/EDIFACT,
it was decided to move the work over to OASIS. There is an increasing interest in
this initiative as it is intended to solve the puzzle of interoperability between
similar standards. David and the CIQ TC agreed that interoperability between CIQ
xNAL and PATDL will be a good example to demonstrate this concept. David then showed
the work that has already been done in this area and a simple application that uses
telecommunication data for interoperability.

As there were not any other issues, the meeting was declared closed.

ACTION ITEMS

- Joe to circulate the PATDL document to the CIQ TC
- David to provide the ebXML implementation template to Ram
- Rob Beauchamp to circulate the presentation material to CIQ TC
- Rob to provide UML diagrams of xNAL, xNL< xAL, xCIL and xCRL
- Ram to talk to Karl Best regarding taking CIQ standards for adoption as
  OASIS Standard
- Ram to circulate CIQ APIs draft document once it is available